page_title: Baguio
section_title: Universities
hierarchical_section_title: Baguio / Education / Universities
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Jose P. Rizal building (right), Konrad Adenauer building (left), and Otto Hahn building (center, back) - Saint Louis University
context_page_description: Baguio, officially the City of Baguio, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the mountainous area of the Northern Luzon, Philippines. It is known as the Summer Capital of the Philippines, owing to its cool climate since the city is located approximately 4,810 feet above mean sea level, often cited as 1,540 meters in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion, which also makes it conducive for the growth of mossy plants, orchids and pine trees, to which it attributes its other moniker as the "City of Pines".
  Baguio was established as a hill station by the United States in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as Kafagway. It was the United States' only hill station in Asia.
  Baguio is classified as a Highly-Urbanized City. It is geographically located within Benguet, serving as the provincial capital from 1901 to 1916, but has since been administered independently from the province following its conversion into a chartered city. The city is a major center of business, commerce, and education in northern Luzon, as well as the location of the Cordillera Administrative Region. According to the 2015 census, Baguio has a population of 345,366.
context_section_description: The city houses eight major institutions of higher education. Baguio's first private school, Easter College, was set up in 1906 by Rt.Rev. Charles Brent, who was Bishop of the Episcopalian Church.
  The Philippine Military Academy, the country's military school, is also housed in the city. It was originally founded in the Walled City of Intramuros in 1907, before relocating to the city in 1908 where it has been since.
  Saint Louis University, the largest private university both in the city and in the entire region, catering to over 40,000 students, was founded by Belgian CICM missionaries in 1911 initially as a one-storey school for boys. It became a college in the 1950s before becoming a university in 1963. It currently has 3 campuses spread across the city.
  The University of the Philippines, the country's premier state university, opened its doors in 1921 to the students of Baguio, initially as an extension campus of the University of the Philippines' Manila's Vigan campus. In 1961, it became a branch campus of UP Diliman, before finally becoming UP Baguio in 2002.
  Baguio Central University was funded in 1945 as the Centro Academy by the Fernandez family. The following year, another educational institution, the University of the Cordilleras was established as the Baguio Colleges before becoming the Baguio Colleges Foundation. It became a full-fledged university in 2003. The University of Baguio was set up as the Baguio Technical and Commercial Institute in 1948 by the Baustista family. It was upgraded to university status in 1969.
  Mainly a nursing and medical school, Pines City Colleges was founded in 1969 as the Pines City Doctors Hospital School of Nursing, three years after the opening of Pines City Doctors' Hospital in 1966.
caption: Saint Louis University
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